This article presents a reflection on the experience of using sound effects that accompany the reading aloud of childhood literary texts. The reflection advances in the understanding of this experience and approaches the subject from conceptual categories such as sound effects and childhood literature, narration and creation, reading comprehension and the pleasure of reading. References are incorporated from the neurosciences, theories of child development and the role of the child pedagogue in the formulation of proposals that promote reading skills and interest in reading in children. Observations derived from various sources are recovered, especially from a research carried out with a population of boys and girls between the ages of eight and nine years.